Saturday, September 14, 2013

Despite the Dodger loss last night, the magic number is now down to four. Let's take a look at the playoff picture. If the season ended today, the matchups would look like this:

St. Louis away isn't exactly a cakewalk. But then again, neither would be the Braves. Or the Reds. Or hell, the Pirates. Come to think of it, this is going to be rough no matter what our path to the World Series ends up being.

It's going to be that much tougher if we keep losing players. Hanley is out until next week with a sciatic nerve issue or some such. Ethier's ankle is jacked up. Kemp is Kemp. The bullpen is showing signs of wear. And Clayton has looked downright unlike Clayton lately.

The saving grace in all this is that we get to face Timmeh Lincecum tonight. He's had a mostly terrible year, with flashes of post-mediocrity tempered with what some might consider mildy-decent pitching. I have long suspected that his issue is related to the fact that he needs to wash his hair, and will likely remind him of that repeatedly in this Game Thread. If you can't beat 'em, taunt 'em, as I always say.

I don't feel so bad then, Gnomes. I hadn't either. I mean, I do keep up w the minors and I listen to the stat lickers whinging about the minor leaguers that we have tended recently to trade away, but I've never heard of this Buss kid. I guess you're either on the Buss or off the Buss.

Shit. The shards and commies are the only teams I don't want to face. Atlanta never makes it past the first round and doesn't look like this year is gonna be any different. The Pitts? They have Russell Martin on their team. No fucking way we lose to that.

I feel like we are going south in every facet of the game. We aren't healthy, those who are healthy are tired and/or slumping. Thank god we aren't leading by only a few games right now. I really hope we can work through this before the end of the month